Game apparatus



July 27, 1943. v P- GOROSPE 2,325,243

GAME APPARATUS Filed May 17, 1941 I'ra1wzl5co aloroslpe,

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Patented July 27, 1943 a I Francisco P. oms e, wajne,;iia.y v H I}; f 1 plication as, 11 ,aitsasimania I i The following.is' :a..detailed"description they rialandds up set-;or.; riveted'1in:.-the :olpening of the novel game apparatus.-. This apparatus isldedisk so =that .the".spost.-x9 "standsNertically. .signed'to be used in aga'rne whe'replaying balls intermediate portioni I...of.-.the .po'st is narrowed .are propelled in the samemanner.as-marblestoT orLcu-tawayas shown inirEig.=-.:2 for? the purpose ward an objective with the idea; of having. the 1 which "will, :appear 1.subsequent'ly.' b" s come to restina cup. or similar arrange- The upper portion.of..--thepostjhas..anihternal ment. The balls may be propelled by the fingers screw-threaded recess .;in:..which, a :staff .or roll in the same manner as a marble would be proii is screwed. This staff carriesa guidon l2 or pelled or in the alternative may be driven with a similar marking flag. This is used where a sucmallet, club or other device. The novel appara-' l l session of the objective units are used in the tus may be used alone or may be combined with game. others so that the game progresses from one ob In the convex upper surface of the disk 6, and jective to another, subject to suitable rules and equally spaced around the cup 1 are recesses l3 penalties. slightly larger than the playing ball 8. These.

This objective serves not only as a cup or rel? recesses have accentuated slopes on the sides toceptaole into which the balls fall but is provided ward the cup while the opposite side of the disk with obstructions and other means serving to inis struck up above the surface of the disk to form troduce hazards, difiiculties or penalties. These a ridge M. This increases the depth of the refeatures include a central verticalpost in the cess and serves the dual purposes of holding the serving to affect the travel of the playing ball '20 ball rolling down the declivity or repelling one obstructing it or deflecting it. Another dewhich is travelling in the direction toward the vice introducing an uncertainty and hazard in center cup .1. I the lcdgment of the ball in the cup is a series I havev shown three recesses l3 equally spaced of vanes. These vanes may repel the ball from but the number may beyincreased or decreased the cup if the ball arrives with to-ogreat force. 25 as desired. 1 Where the ball fails to come to rest in the cen- An added hazard or handicap in the game is tral cup of the objective, it may in passing over afiorded by means of vanes which extend radially the convex surface of the objective be caught from the post l and divide the cup 1 into comin one of the series of recesses or depressions departmenta One vane I is formed of a blank signed to hold the ball and thus exact a penalty 13;) of sheet materialshown in Fig. l. Centrally it against the player. v is slotted as at [6. The blank in its final posi- The preferred form of my invention is illus- -tion is wrapped around the center post ill in trated in the accompanying drawing in which contact with the wide upperportion of the lat- 3. is a plan view of my invention; ter. The endsiof the blank are then brought to- Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same taken 1:5 ether as shown in Fig. 1. A second or compleon the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; mentary vane I1 is shown in Fig. 3. This vane ig. 3 is a plan view of the blank sheet used is cut away at the center to provide a narrow' for forming one vane; band H8. The narrow band I8 is designed to fit i is a plan view of the blank sheet for the in the slot N5 of the vane l5 and be wrapped complementary vane, and around e rOWportion of the pOSt 19 as Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating one indicated in Fig. 2. i The ends of the vane ll exgame in which the invention may beuse-d. tend radiallyand at an angle of 120 degrees.

Specifically my invention provides a conven- This serves to bring the band l8against the ient and elfective objective for the playing balls. ends of the slot l6 and thus hold the ends of I make it in the form of a convex disk s. This vane 15 in a mid-position between the ends of may be of relatively soft sheet metal or compothe vane I'l. Since the band 18 is beneath the sitions of wood, fiber, pulp, plastics or the like. broad portion of the'post ID, the vanes are pre- This disk rests upon the peripheral edge with its vented from accidental dislodgment from the convexity upward as shown in Fig. 2. The cenpost Ill.

ter portion of the disk fi is formed as a depression Preferably the vanes I5 and I7 extend beor cup 7 of suitable depth and width to hold tween the rings I3 but may be shiftedto vary the playing ball Bif the same rolls into the cup the conditions of the game.

without too great momentum. In Fig. 5, I have shown one of numerous ar- Th center of the cup has an. opening whichv rangements which may be made of the game holds a post 9. This is of metal or similar mateapparatus. He-re the several units or ball r I it may then be playediro'm ,tl'rat;point-toward.

the second receiver'and'the playzcontinues until the player fails to land the ball in the next cup.

The play then passes to the next player.- He

may continue playing for the recevers irrsuccession but in addition may digress to strike his opponents ball. The latter isthen iorced to, return to the starting point while the player may continue. 1 I

If, however, the ball fails to remain in the cup 1 but strikes the abutment vanes l5 and II, it may bounceoutxand roll back into a depression l3. In this case thetball 'must again be played'from' the starting point at the players next turn. Suitable rules can-be made governing fouls and the arrangement: of-the receiving disks may of course be variedat will. a I a While I have illustrated .the preferred form by the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A unitary receiver for playing, balls comprising a disk having a generally convex upper surface, a cup centrally formed in the disk and a series of generally oval ball-receiving recesses spaced circumferentially on the'convex surface of the disk between its edge and the cup.

2. A unitary receiver} for playing balls comprising a disk having a generally convex upper surface, a-cup centrally formed inthe disk, a vertical post in the center of the disk, a slotted vane clamped around the post, a second vane having a reduced central portion passing through the slotted vane and clamped to the post.

3. A unitary receiver for playing balls comprising a disk having a generally convex upper surface, a cup centrally formed in the disk, a vertical postin the center of the disk, said post having a narrowed middle. portion, a slotted vane clamped around the post, a second vane having a. reduced'central portion passing through the slotted vane and clamped to the narrow middle portion of the post. i

FRANCISCO P. GOROSPE.

oi mydevice, the invention itself is limited solely 

